Former Fort Carson soldier sentenced in $1M fuel theft from US military

By: The Associated Press

October 29, 2013Updated: October 29, 2013 at 8:13 pm

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DENVER — Prosecutors say a former Army sergeant and a civilian have been sentenced to prison after pleading guilty to helping steal more than $1 million worth of fuel from the U.S. military in Afghanistan.

Thirty-year-old Christopher Weaver, who was assigned to the Army's Fort Carson in Colorado, was sentenced Monday to three years and one month in prison. Thirty-one-year-old civilian Jonathan Hightower of Houston was sentenced to two years and three months in prison.

Prosecutors say Weaver and Hightower conspired to load fuel into trucks at a forward operating base in Afghanistan and to use fake documents to get them off the base. Prosecutors say the fuel was then sold.